‘The Wages of Dreamwork: Class Composition and the Social Reproduction of Cultural Labour’ by Stevphen Shukaitis and Joanna Figiel reviewed by Silvia Federici (opens in new tab)

The Wages of Dreamwork is an ambitious and timely contribution to debates on labour, culture and social reproduction under contemporary capitalism. Drawing from autonomist Marxism, feminist theory, critical management studies and the history of avant-garde artistic practice, Stevphen Shukaitis and Joanna Figiel examine how creativity, desire and the search for meaningful activity have become increasingly central to capitalist accumulation. The book argues that the conditions historically asso...